The Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet and the Air Pollution Control Board of Jefferson County open a public comment period April 2, 2001, on a proposed revision to Kentucky’s State Implementation Plan. This revision is a request to redesignate the Louisville area to attainment for the 1-hour ozone standard. This revision includes a plan to maintain the standard through 2012 and, when approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will set regional mobile source budgets for transportation conformity purposes. The nonattainment area includes Jefferson and portions of Bullitt and Oldham Counties, Kentucky, and Clark and Floyd Counties, Indiana.
Written statements will be accepted by the Board, Jonathan L. Trout, Secretary-Treasurer, Air Pollution Control District of Jefferson County, 850 Barret Avenue, Louisville, KY 40204-1745, and by the Division for Air Quality, 803 Schenkel Lane, Frankfort, KY 40601, Attention John Hornback, until 5 p.m. May 1, 2001. Written statements will also be accepted electronically until the same deadline via the Internet at the e-mail address "regs@apcd.org". Oral statements will be accepted at the public hearing on May 16, 2001, at 9 a.m. in the Board Room, 850 Barret Avenue, Louisville.
Information may be obtained from Jonathan Trout, (502) 574-7251, between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. An electronic copy of the proposed redesignation request, maintenance plan, and regional mobile source budgets may be downloaded from the Division’s website at "http://www.nr.state.ky.us/nrepc/dep/daq/pubinfo/calendar.html" or from the District’s website at "http://www.apcd.org/board/hearings/index.html". In addition, the full text of the document is available for public inspection and copying during regular business hours at the Bullitt County Clerk’s Office, Bullitt County Courthouse Annex, Shepherdsville, Kentucky 40165; the Oldham County Clerk’s Office, Oldham County Fiscal Court Building, 100 W Jefferson Street, LaGrange, Kentucky 40031; the offices of the Division for Air Quality, 803 Schenkel Lane, Frankfort, Kentucky 40601; and the offices of the Air Pollution Control District of Jefferson County, 850 Barret Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky 40204.
Published on Monday, April 2, 2001, in The Courier-Journal Metro edition, legal 105 column.